European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 1, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday saturday january 1/2,1993 the stars and stripes Pago 7 Castro s Rule Miami apr bar plan by boat and by raft a growing flood of cubans is trying to reach Florida and some say the latest escape flights show Fidel Castro a Quot Cane curtain Quot is cracking wide open. A cuban Airliner veered off a Domestic route and landed in Miami of tuesday with 53 people aboard most seeking political Asylum forty eight were released by . Immigration officials late wednesday to family members and Church groups. Five Otic to flew Back to cd a. I a How could this have happened it like nobody a watching Quot said Lisandro Perez head of the cuban research Institute at Florida International University. Quot Castro must be getting his people together and saying a what the hell is going on a v. The dramatic flight capped a year that already has seen a record number of boaters rafters and others reaching Florida a shores. Coast guard patrols picked up 2,549 cubans in 1992, Many clinging Tonitte More than inner tubes said spokeswoman Toni Long that number is up about 350 from 1991 a and compares with 59 such rescues in 1988. A tuesdays mass defection which jubilant Pilot Carlos Cancio Force said was planned for a year took Many cuban experts by Surprise. The flight follows that of former cuban air Force Quot. A a a a Castro must be getting his people together and saying a what the hell is going on Quot / a a a a a a Lisand Rippere of y \ Florida International University Pilot Orestes Lorenzo Percz who flew a Small plane Back to Cuba on dec. 19 to whisk his family off a beaches id Road. He defected in 1991 by flying his Mig-23 Jet fighter to the United states. Armando Valladares a cuban exile who served As . Representative to the United nations human rights committee said the two flights Are signs of the future. A they show the weakness in Castro a defense system and raise the possibility of More escapes a Valladares said. The two flights Are not tie Only recent escape attempts by air. In december 1991, a single engine Trainer skimmed across the Florida Straits to Freedom and in january 1992, a tourist helicopter with 34 escaping., cubans set Down at a Small Airport outside Garrii not All Are so fortunate. A cuban crop duster . Jews protest israeli plan Quot. Rabbis Cluster around the podium As they address thousands of orthodox jews who demonstrated in front of the israeli consulate in new York on wednesday. They were protesting the planned excavations of an Dent burial grounds in Jerusalem. The burial grounds stand in the Way of a new Road. Teen s diary tells of killing sister san Leandro Calif. Apr like Many adolescents the 14-year-old girl was eager to confide in her new diary. But it was a terrible secret she had to Tell. A i have something to get off my Back. 1 killed my Little sister a said the entry that led to the Fremont girls arrest. The teen Ager appeared in juvenile court on wednesday one Day after she was charged with using a Pillow to smother her asthmatic 4-year-old sister who died under mysterious circumstances in August a court referee ruled that the girl should remain in custody until her next court appearance this coming.  girl who police said had a history of psychological problems now denies that she killed her sister and has told police that she wrote the diary entry Only to gain  names of the victim and her sister were withheld by police because of their Ages. In court the youngster with tousled hair and braces mumbled a yes Quot when defense attorney Stephen Homer asked whether she understood her rights. As she left the courtroom she turned around looked at the Row a of relatives friends and reporters and said Quot Stop looking at  her parents refused to speak with reporters at the hearing. The girl s parents found the chilling entry last saturday after she ran away from Home. The couple had frantically searched their daughters room and found the diary they had Given her for Christmas on her nightstand. It was locked so they pried it open. The tone entry was dated Jan 1,1993 it was the first Page available. Quot dear diary Well its the new year so in a going to Start telling you everything Dearest to me Quot the teenager wrote a i have to get something off my Back. I killed my Little sister. A i went into her room and got her and took her into my room and told her i loved her and covered her Mouth and suffocated her. You re the first person in be told. Well i Fel  the parents discussed the matter with the family a pastor then called police. The girl was arrested sunday. Crashed just off the Florida keys in february after flee a a ing the Island killing All eight aboard. A. And on wednesday 35 cuban students at russian universities were in Moscow awaiting a plane to defect to a new life in Miami instead of returning to their Homeland. Going the other Way Wei the five cubans who did no to want to remain in the United states after tuesdays  cuban plane landed wednesday evening at Miami International Airport to pick up the five said Federal aviation administration spokeswoman Anne eld Ridge in Atlanta. A v the five were returned in a cuban escort plane while a cuban Pilot flew Home the soviet made Turboprop Airliner said Marc Henderson spokesman for the Dade county aviation department. The Fri was investigating whether tuesdays flight broke . Hijacking Laws. In Washington state department officials said gov eminent lawyers were deeply divided Over whether to regard the diversion of the cuban Airliner As a hijacking. 1 4cthe incident is deemed a hijacking the United lates would be required under International Law to either prosecute or extradite accused hijackers state department spokesman Joseph Snyder said. It out jeans Boston apr Many obese people who blame their genes or their metabolisms for their bulk actually eat too much a study concludes. The researchers said those who claim they simply cannot take off pounds May be fooling themselves they eat far More a and exercise less a than they think. Such people often contend that fat settles around their bellies and thighs because they have inherited sluggish metabolisms. Their bodies refuse to Burn up calories. But the study suggests this is probably not the major reason Why people stay fat despite diet after diet. Instead the real villain is too much food. Doctors conducted the study at St. Luke a Roosevelt Hospital Center in new York after repeatedly hearing the stories from overweight patients about diet resistance or their inability Tolose  we decided once and for All to set up an Experiment to find out what actually is wrong with these patients Quot said or. Steven b. Heymsfield medical director of the hospitals weight control unit. A there were two alternatives a Low metabolism and under reporting of food intake. Both hypotheses seemed plausible to  the researchers carefully followed obese people who had failed with Many diets and claimed to cat fewer than 1,200 calories a Day. They found that these Peoples metabolisms were perfectly Normal. However they ate about twice As much As they said and exercised about one Quarter less Quot these people really cannot invoke some genetic cause As the Only explanation for their obesity Quot Heymsfield said Quot the main reason they Are overweight is that they Are overeating. Lets not blame it on something that it  a the study published in thursdays new England journal of Medicine was based on 10 overweight people a nine women and one Man a who complained of diet resistance. Some had failed 20 serious attempts at dieting,. Official asks Clinton to give haitians Asylum new York a the United nations commissioner who monitors refugees has asked president elect Clinton to plan on granting temporary Asylum to haitian boat people the new York times reported thursday. A report by . High commissioner Sadako Ogata asks Clinton to end president Bush a policy of forcibly repatriating haitians who claim they re victims of political persecution the newspaper said. A member of Clinton a transition team told the times that he president elect is considering accepting More refugee applications and interviewing More Asylum seekers in Haiti